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She has carved out her seven pillars.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.</p> <p class="hdg">The Way of Folly</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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